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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: The sex industry isn't technophilic; Schroedinger's streaming service just died; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/06/21/ear…

#Pluralistic 1/ Image: Come As You Are Co-...
Sponsor me for the @ClarionUCSD Write-A-Thon! I'm writing 10,000 words on my prison-tech thriller "Some Men Rob You With a Fountain Pen" and raising scholarship money for the Clarion SF/F workshop, which I graduated from in 1992.

clarionwriteathon.com/members/profil… 2/
The sex industry isn't technophilic: Why sex workers are the first in - and first out - of new technologies.

3/ Image: Come As You Are Co-...
Schroedinger's streaming service just died: When is a "sale" a "license?"

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Hey look at this

* @Bobosphere's final broadcast bullypulpit.substack.com/p/off-the-air#…

* Platformer Toolkit, an interactive essay gmtk.itch.io/platformer-too… (h/t @waxy)

* The Hatbox Ghost that Never Was …gforgottenhauntedmansion.blogspot.com/2022/06/the-ha… 5/ Image
#20yrsago #Perl is Internet #Yiddish web.archive.org/web/2002062116…

#20yrsago The invention of #Warchalking web.archive.org/web/2002102004…

#20yrsago Punk sounds for babies punkrockbaby.com

#15yrsago Email gets fourth amendment protection again web.archive.org/web/2007081301… 6/ Image
#15yrsago #GoldFarming makes the NYT nytimes.com/2007/06/17/mag…

#15yrsago Fix the FCC or die web.archive.org/web/2007070320…

#15yrsago North American Broadcasters Association knifes NPR and PBS at the United Nations anti-podcasting treaty negotiation web.archive.org/web/2007062603… 7/ Image
#10yrsago DMZ is finished: @brianwood nailed the ending memex.craphound.com/2012/06/21/dmz…

#10yrsago G4S boss predicts mass privatisation of UK police forces theguardian.com/uk/2012/jun/20…

#10yrsago @paolobacigalupi: cyberpunk saved sf web.archive.org/web/2014122512… 8/ Image
#10yrsago Drugs Without the Hot Air: the most sensible book about drugs you’ll read this year memex.craphound.com/2012/06/20/dru…

#10yrsago Fanfic inspired by the apocalyptic state of a ten-year-old Civilization II game reddit.com/r/gaming/comme… 9/ Image
#10yrsago How stupid is Charles Carreon’s lawsuit against The Oatmeal, IndieGoGo, the American Cancer Society and the National Wildlife Federation? Really, really stupid popehat.com/2012/06/19/the… 10/ Image
#10yrsago Oatmeal to Charles Carreon: calm down before you get yourself into trouble theoatmeal.com/blog/carreon

#10yrsago @aaronsw reviews Twilight of the Elites, an indictment of meritocracy crookedtimber.org/2012/06/18/gue… 11/ Image
#10yrsago Young man with autism sees off the Snow White ride at Walt Disney World shmoolok.com/Blog/Post/339/… 12/
#10yrsago FunnyJunk’s lawyer sues American Cancer Society and National Wildlife Federationhttps://www.popehat.com/2012/06/17/the-oatmeal-v-funnyjunk-part-iv-charles-carreon-sues-everybody/

#10yrsago Falsehoods programmers believe about time infiniteundo.com/post/253269996… 13/ Image
#5yrsago A right-wing Dem Senator who voted to sell weapons to Saudi is being primaried by an environmental activist theintercept.com/2017/06/19/joe…

#5yrsago New media noncompetes are destroying the careers of young journalists cjr.org/business_of_ne… 14/ Image
#5yrsago Every year, @Starbucks sends 4 billion nonrecyclable paper cups to landfills treehugger.com/starbucks-cups…

#5yrsago Truck-driving is a modern form of indentured slavery usatoday.com/pages/interact…

#5yrsago Canon #Jesus was way better than fandom Jesus web.archive.org/web/2017042307… 15/ Image
#5yrsago Israeli company’s spyware used to target corruption-fighting journalists and lawyers in Mexico citizenlab.ca/2017/06/reckle…

#5yrsago @sxsw condemns Texas’s state-level law banning “sanctuary cities” like Austin rollingstone.com/music/music-ne… 16/ Image
#5yrsago My Favorite Thing is Monsters: a haunting diary of a young girl as a dazzling graphic novel memex.craphound.com/2017/06/20/my-…

#5yrsago The Big Bad Fox: hilarious tale of predators, parenting, and poultry memex.craphound.com/2017/06/20/the… 17/ Image
#1yrago How to cheat on your taxes: The rich are different from you and me pluralistic.net/2021/06/20/la-…

#1yrago The doctrine of dynastic wealth: @abigaildisney on tax evasion and the American caste system pluralistic.net/2021/06/19/dyn… 18/ Image
#1yrago The gig economy's dark-money, astroturf "community groups" pluralistic.net/2021/06/19/dyn… 19/ Image
Friday's threads: Facebook's right, Apple is too powerful; and more!

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My latest book is Attack Surface, a sequel to my bestselling Little Brother books, now in paperback, wherever books are sold.

Signed copies at @DarkDel:

darkdel.com/store/p1840/Co… 21/
My book "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism" is a critique of Big Tech connecting conspiratorial thinking to the rise of tech monopolies (proposing a way to deal with both) is now out in paperback:

onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy…

Signed copies here:
darkdel.com/store/p2024/Av… 22/ Image
My ebooks and audiobooks (from @torbooks, @HoZ_Books, @mcsweeneys, and others) are for sale all over the net, but I sell 'em too, and when you buy 'em from me, I earn twice as much and you get books with no DRM and no license "agreements."

craphound.com/shop/ 23/ Image
Upcoming appearances:

* A New @hopeconf (NYC), Jul 24
hope.net 24/ Image
Recent appearances:

* Supp-Lie Demand (Bad Faith podcast with @briebriejoy):
patreon.com/posts/67550669

* The Sci-Fi Feedback Loop: Mapping Fiction’s Influence on Real-World Tech
csi.asu.edu/calendar/event…

* Privacy is the New Celebrity
buzzsprout.com/1806101/106430… 25/ Image
My first picture book is out! It's called Poesy the Monster Slayer and it's an epic tale of bedtime-refusal, toy-hacking and monster-hunting, illustrated by Matt @mcrockefeller. It's the monster book I dreamt of reading to my own daughter.

pluralistic.net/2020/07/14/poe… 26/ Image
If you're a @Medium subscriber, you can read these essays - as well as previews of upcoming magazine columns and early exclusives on doctorow.medium.com.

My latest column is "Reasonable Agreements: On the Crapification of Literary Contracts"

doctorow.medium.com/reasonable-agr… 27/
If you prefer a newsletter, subscribe to the plura-list, which is also ad- and tracker-free, and is utterly unadorned save a single daily emoji. Today's is "🧟‍♀️". Suggestions solicited for future emojis!

Subscribe here: pluralistic.net/plura-list 28/
Are you trying to wean yourself off Big Tech? Follow these threads on the #fediverse at @pluralistic@mamot.fr.

Here's today's edition: mamot.fr/@pluralistic/1… 29/
Today's top sources: @slashdot (slashdot.org), @yvessmith (nakedcapitalism.com). 30/ Image

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Science fiction isn't collection of tropes, nor is it a literary style, nor is it a marketing category. It can *encompass* all of these, but what sf really is, is an *outlook*.

1/ The Harpercollins cover for Neal Stephenson's 'Polostan.'
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"Switching costs" are one of the great underappreciated evils in our world: the more it costs you to change from one product or service to another, the worse the vendor, provider, or service you're using today can treat you without risking your business.

1/ A painting of Moses parting the Red Sea, with taerrified and grateful Israelites around his feet and an onrushing army of charioteers in pursuit. Moses has been replaced with a vintage editorial cartoon depicting Uncle Sam as a stern cop holding out a billyclub, on his breast is the crest of the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau. The roiling Red Sea has been overlaid with a US $100 bill.
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1/ A rearing GOP elephant (with Trump's hair) facing off against bucking Democratic mule. Between them is a grimacing Statue of Liberty, leaning to one side. Behind the Trump elephant looms a clown with a MAGA clown-hat, brandishing a pistol. Behind the Democratic mule is a science worker using a set of tongs to add a glowing atom to a giant test-tube full of technological artifacts. Behind them roil dark purplish storm-clouds.
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